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^[[Copied]] ^[[file]] Copy. Report on the Historical Collections in the U.S. National Museum, 1890. By A. Howard Clark, Curator. The transfer of a large collection of relics of Gen^[[eral]] Washington from the patent office to the National Museum in 1883, was [[strikethrough]] practically [[/strikethrough]] the beginning of a separate section devoted to historical collections. With the Washington relics were grouped many objects heretofore exhibited in other departments of the Museum, but which are of more interest as personal relics of representative men or memorials of events or places of historic importance. Here were brought together various gifts from foreign governments to Presidents Jefferson, Adams, Van Buren, Commodore Perry and other high officials of the United States. [[strikethrough]] In November 1886 the large collection of relics of Gen. Grant were [[/strikethrough]] Besides relics of Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, General Ripley, Commodore Elliott, Commodore Biddle and many other eminent American statesmen and soldiers; as well as numerous manuscripts, and relics pertaining to the colonial and revolutionary war period of our country [[strikethrough]] as well as [[/strikethrough]] ^[[and]] mementoes of ^[[Sir John Franklin,]] Kane, Hayes, ^[[Hall]], deLong ^[[and other Arctic explorers]]